Homofascists Not Welcome

Fr. Josiah Trenham, pastor of St. Andrew Orthodox Church in Riverside, Calif., delivered one of the more virulently anti-LGBT speeches at the World Congress of Families in Tblisi, Georgia, linking homosexuality to predatory and promiscuous behavior, saying that,

“There’s a long and consistent history of unusual bathroom use in the LGBT community… . Today there are digital apps that guide homosexual men to particular bathrooms for sexual acts throughout the airports and other public places in America.”

Keep that in mind, he said,

“when you hear about the contemporary debates about the so-called transgender bathroom bills.” Trenham bemoaned LGBT rights, claiming that LGBT calls for tolerance were actually “a call for the overthrow of traditional religious and civilizational norms for family, sex and law.”

He claimed that the LGBT lobby, which has won “victory” in the media, medicine, psychiatry and courts, is now “pressing for the suppression of dissent.” He lambasted “activist judges” and went on to link homosexuality to terrorism.

“Today the USA has a national ambassador for the promotion of sodomy and it uses the LGBT agenda as a litmus test for granting humanitarian aid and military intelligence against terrorism to…nations. Stand firm in your faith,” he exhorted attendees.

“Tell the LGBT tolerance tyrants, this lavender mafia, these homofascists, these rainbow radicals, that they are not welcome to promote their anti-religious and anti-civilizational propaganda in your nations.”

See for yourself what he had to say.

Source: Southern Poverty Law Center, which clearly believes such ideas to be radically extremist and the stuff of conspiracy theories.

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- Isaiah 52:7 & Romans 10:15

We must be super-conservative in preserving the Orthodox faith, and super-modern in propagating it.

- St. Nikolai Velimirovich

But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, that person is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.